On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Eric Gillespie wrote:
> Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@pultek.co.jp> writes:
>
> > I just remembered that I did run fc-cache and stopped it as the
> > command lasts forever. (In fact, not forever, but looked forever to
> > me. :)
>
> It takes a *long* time to run, but let it; it will eventually
> complete. Why it takes so long, i do not know. Why it needs the
> cache at all when Xft1 didn't, i do not know.
>
> > How about executing fc-cache once at POST-INSTALL?
Would it make sense to build it and include it in the package?
That way you pay the cost at build time once, rather than every
time someone installs a package.
It would make the fonts build depend on fontconfig which is
probably not too bad...
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